The A-Team's ride was a GMC 1983 G-Series Van and it has to be one of the best vans ever made! It was customized for the show by Universal Studios Prop Dept...

The engine was a 350 cid with minor modifications done to the carburator and exhaust system. The wheels were 15" turbine style painted black with red accents (P235/65 15-front and P 275/65 15-rear). The main van colour was semi-gloss black on the bottom bottom, and a semi-gloss dark gun metal grey on the top. And who can forget the trademark red striping across the front and down the sides!

Other mod's included: quad headlight conversion, full front brushbar, fog/driving lights, exterior sun visor, quad square exhaust tips (each side in front of rear wheels), and custom made rear wing. Interior was custom-white naugahide bucket seats and custom gun case in the back (by the way, Guns were Ruger Mini 14 stainless steel ranch model with side eject and paratrooper folding stocks. Two were modified for full automatic).

If you look carefully when watching The A-Team you'll see 3M grip tape all over the roof for scene's where stuntmen jumped onto it. It also had beefy air shocks in the rear to improve handling. Scene's where it burns out were done by spraying bleach in front of and onto the rear tires which creates billowing grey smoke and helps it to spin the tires.

There are rumors that the show lost its GMC sponsorship when they removed the GMC name from the van completely during the last season. The rest of the time it was on the left rear door but was barely visible as they sprayed a light coat of the black paint over it so it wouldn't stand out so much.